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La France-des-Cavernes
The only photograph that hangs in my attic office is that of René Char, the poet and World War II Resistance fighter. Trying to find an appropriate expression of solidarity with the French people in the ... -
The Global War on ISIL and Its Associated Forces
For more than a decade we have had controversy and debate with respect to whether there is indeed an armed conflict between the United States and al Qaeda, whether any such conflict applies without geogr... -
The Lawfare Podcast: John Carlin on National Security and the Cyber Threat Landscape
Earlier this week, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes interviewed John Carlin at the Atlantic Council on National Security and the Cyber Threat Landscape. Carlin, the Assistant Attorney General for National Secur... -
Why President Obama Should Seek Formal Congressional Support If He Ramps Up Force Against the Islamic State After Paris
The gruesome events in Paris could strengthen President Obama’s domestic war powers authority under Article II in two ways. -
The International Criminal Court and Power Politics
The recent appearance on Lawfare of my American University colleague David Bosco (in the roundtable on US Navy operations in the South China Sea) prompts His Serenity to fix his lapse in failing to mark ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Bobby alerted us last night to the horrifying series of attacks that occurred across Paris on Friday evening. A series of explosions and armed attacks left at least 128 dead across the city and injured h... -
Terrorist Attacks in Paris Tonight
Anyone reading this site probably already knows about the horror unfolding tonight in Paris. But just in case not: Dozens are dead at multiple locations, and there appears to be a Beslan/Mumbai-style h... -
What Does the NDAA Say About Cyber? (Bonus Feature: The Return of the EMP Commission)
With the President supposedly poised to sign the NDAA FY'16 notwithstanding its GTMO transfer restrictions (subject, no doubt, to a signing statement hinting at an override option), it's a good time to t... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Not two days after launching an offensive to retake the city from ISIS, Kurdish forces backed by U.S. airpower and Yazidi fighters entered the town of Sinjar today and announced its liberation from Islam... -
Rational Security: The "Incubus of Plague" Edition
This week on the show, we go all CNN on you and talk plane crashes: Will we ever know how a Russian airliner fell from the sky in Egypt? Does it matter or does it only matter what Vladimir Putin thinks b... -
Water Wars: Calling for Calm amid South China Sea Storm, Xi Unleashes Diplomatic Offensive
Xi Jinping and Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi (Photo: Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images) -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Backed by U.S.-coalition air power and thousands of Yazidi fighters, Kurdish forces have launched an offensive to retake Sinjar from the Islamic State. The New York Times writes that “as many as 7,500 Ku...
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